Slashdot Lashes Back at MS

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Slashdot Lashes Back at MS

Geek-news hub Slashdot.org typically features various discussions about the open-source software movement. Now it's featuring an open-source legal spat between itself and Microsoft, to boot.

Last week, Microsoft's lawyers sent a letter to Slashdot demanding that it remove several messages in one of its discussion forums. The message – which discussed Microsoft's tweaks to an open-source security protocol called "Kerberos" – violated copyright law, Microsoft claimed.